There are good reasons to think that Earth and Mars originally formed a single protoplanet—Terramars—outside the orbit of Jupiter. Then, about 4.47 billion years ago, Terramars was pulled by Jupiter’s powerful gravitational field past the gas giant. As Terramars neared Jupiter, tidal forces heated it to the melting point, and Jupiter tore Mars away from Earth, leaving the Pacific Basin. Both planets, now turned into red-hot comets, sped off into the inner solar system.
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Tags: Earth, earth science, geomagnetism, Hawaiian Islands, hotspots, Mars, moon, Pacific, planetary science, plate tectonics, plumes, seismography, volcanism

Historian and scientific researcher Kenneth J. Dillon discusses his theory The Outer Solar System Origin of the Terrestrial Planets (OSSO). OSSO explains how Mercury, Earth, the Moon, and Mars originated outside the orbit of Saturn, then were pulled inward by Jupiter’s gravity. Tidal friction heated them to incandescence, then they tidally locked to Jupiter and were separated, moving as comets into their present orbits. See also https://www.scientiapress.com/outer-solar-system-origin.
Outer Solar System Origin of the Terrestrial Planets
Tags: Bronze Age catastrophes, Capture theory, Immanuel Velikovsky, inner solar system, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, moon, Oceanus Procellarum, planetary science, terrestrial, tidal locking, venus